Hoping For Something Quotes:

All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

- David Levithan

source: Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Believe, Hard Times, Hoping For Something, Too Much Information, Having A Hard Time

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

- Buzz Bissinger

topic: Play, Hoping For Something, Perception

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.55, Harper Collins

topic: Fighting, Hoping For Something, Want, True You

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

- Orison Swett Marden

source: Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.37, e-artnow

topic: Hope, Powerful, Get Well Soon, Well Soon, Cancer And Hope

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

- Vaclav Havel

source: "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

topic: Inspiring, Dream, Hope, Strength And Hope, Hope And Love

There are two very different types of hope in this world. One is hoping for something, and the other is hoping in Someone.

- Pete Wilson

topic: Two, World, Different, Hoping For Something

Sam was starting to feel anxious. Nutella and noodles were fine. Great in fact. Miraculous. But he'd been hoping for more food more water more medicine something. It was absurdly like Christmas morning when he was little: hoping for something he couldn't even put a name to. A game changer. Something...amazing.

- Michael Grant

topic: Morning, Games, Names, Nutella, Christmas Morning

I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting my strong fingers together with her frail ones. I rested my forehead against our hands and closed my eyes. I imagined lifting my head up and seeing her smiling, the tape and tubes gone. I wondered if wishing was the same thing as praying. If hoping for something badly enough could make it happen.

- Kami Garcia

topic: Strong, Eye, Winter, Tiny Hands, Hoping For Something

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

- Gabriela Sabatini

topic: Fame, Heard, Halls, Hall Of Fame, Hoping For Something